The budget includes $2.9 billion for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, $140.4 million for the Office of
the Special Trustee for American Indians and $217 million for Indian Country water programs at the Bureau of Reclamation.

When President Obama puts forward a nominee to replace Justice Scalia, Indians would do well to inquire of other Indians living in the nominee’s legal stomping grounds whether the nominee’s biases run for us or against us.